PimpinAinttEasy It was a boring party. Pimpin stood on the sidelines. But there was always another bored extroverted guy/bored relative at these parties who wanted to penetrate your space.Bored Relative: Hey Pimpin. Hows married life?Pimpin: Hey, cant complain.Bored Relative: Watched any new movie?Pimpin: Yes, Inglorious Bastards.Bored Relative: But that's an old film.Pimpin: No this is the 1970s film. And not the Tarantino film.Bored Relative: What? There is a 70s film by the same name? Stop bluffing!Pimpin: Why would I bluff?Bored Relative: You were always such a film snob. Tarantino remakes a 70s film and does not even change the name?Pimpin: No you bitch! It is not even the same film. Stop pontificating about things you know nothing about.Bored relative: Why the swearing? Why are you so hostile?Pimpin: Because I hate you bitch!Bored relative: OK. I wont bother you anymore.Pimpin catches bored relative by his shirt sleeve and does not let him go.Pimpin: I cannot let you go. You intruded into my space. Inglorious Bastards is a 70s film by some Italian guy. Tarantino simply ripped off the name of the movie. It is a film about a bunch of war prisoners/criminals/deserters who mistakenly enter a mission. It is an action film. Some of the action sequences were well done. It was alright. It has naked woman. And a black hero as well as a white hero. I'm sure Tarantino borrowed the tongue in cheek spirit of the film for his later works. The film wears its mediocrity on its sleeve. It does have some long shots of ravaged land. The acting and script are awful. I don't recommend it to you or anyone in this party.Bored relative. OK. Could you let go of my sleeve now?Pimpn: Sure.Another guest: Pimpin, you need a drink.Pimpin: I need a drink but all the bars are closed.

littletease In a nut shell...I tried to watch this when it came out, fell asleep after 15 minutes of it (the dairy farm bit).Its taken me this long to watch it. So it is a Tarantino film, bloody, gory but in a serious comical way. This film is great if you have time to read (unless your fluent in both French and German. Great story, I do not know if it is true to life, but you would hope so. A brilliant story and a great ending. Not as good as Django Unchained.Serious note, the best actor would be Christoph Waltz...he made his character real. Brad Pitt was in the film but I would say as a cameo...plus could not understand a flipping word he said. Melanie Laurent amazing too. We can not see such talent until its out in our face and I have seen some of it.

secondtake The Inglorious Bastards (1978)Well, first I watched the Tarantino Inglourious Basterds (2009) and just saw Wellman's Battleground (1949) which is another kind of rag-tag predecessor. This 1978 one fits between somehow, a rollicking, no holds barred Italian-made, low budget, WWII rebel movie. That says it all, in a way.Or not. First, it's not a "good" movie in the usual sense. Even if you hated Tarantino's, you have to admit it had high production standards. This however does not, and that's part of what makes it interesting. The soldiers are bad the way we imagine rebels from Vietnam were "bad," and of course this is a post-Vietnam movie in many ways, with lack of real accountability and lots of senseless bloodshed. I guess the title makes this clear, but if not, be warned.So why watch it? For it's irreverence (always healthy) and its odd mixture of period attitudes (none of that too-holy WWII cant here, even when a little might be in order, and there are some rock and rolling haircuts). You have to admit at some point this gang of males are little too male for a lot of tastes (like mine), but they hang together like miscreant frat boys on and off, and help each other survive, and so that's appealing even when it's absurd. It never gets sluggish, and you know what? They're Americans fighting Nazis. You know who to root for.You also need to get half way to see a major (and somewhat humorous) twist that gives the whole thing life. And then it accelerates and takes on a lot of flavor, as well as genuine heroism.Not bad at all. Give it a go, with all this in mind!

lastliberal In a nutshell, Enzo G. Castellari's legendary 1978 Eurocult classic "The Inglorious Bastards," which brought together "Walking Tall" star Bo Svenson, blaxploitation legend Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, and a whole lot of dead Italians is a naked chick war film that was an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino.In fact, there is supposedly footage in Quentin's film borrowed from this one (I haven't seen the new version yet), and Director Castellari (Keoma, Cold Eyes of Fear) is an actor in the new film.To say that the body count in this film is high is a misnomer; almost as many people died in this film as in the whole war.Like The Dirty Dozen, it is about a misfit group of deserters that is charged with an extremely dangerous mission to capture a German rocket.One heck of a bang up ending.